Kinemalogue

STREETS OF FIRE 1984 Directed by Walter Hill Written by Walter Hill and Larry Gross Spoiler alert: moderate

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE It's not quite the triumph one might have cautiously hoped for when they heard that both Cameron and Hamilto...

In which Halloween-related marathoning has resulted in reviews of several spooky movies from the mind of the world's favorite horro...

THE PREDATOR So now I can see why I might have dragged my feet on finishing this particular retrospective—it must have been a p...

PREDATORS Predators presents one big new idea for the franchise, with a lot of littler new ideas that dovetail into it, and most...

PREDATOR 2 Predator 2 never quite justifies its existence, but it mostly earns your attention, and that will have to do. 1990 D...

TURBO KID It's shocking enough that Turbo Kid simply isn't obnoxious in its pandering (though pander it does, for 95 straigh...

PREDATOR Quite possibly the 1980s' finest combination of brains and brawn, you'd think Predator would be rated even higher ...

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR AVP isn't exactly great, but is absolutely some brand of "good enough," and it's entirely impo...

ALIENS The great JC (the other one; no, the other other one) brings this franchise to its highest possible point. 1986 Written...

ALIEN As the film that kickstarted the whole cycle of sci-fi horror in the 1980s, we are forever in Alien 's debt; and for being ...

CONAN THE BARBARIAN It may not be entirely devoid of any good points, but taken as a whole, Conan the Barbarian '11 is just abo...

RED SONJA The legend of Conan continues without Conan, but not without Schwazenegger, and what we get is a bog standard fantasy-acti...

October's end draws near —and so once again it's time to pull the old switcheroo with Brennan Klein, the finest human being I k...

CONAN THE DESTROYER Even though there are still things to love about this watered-down sequel, it's one damned hard comedown. ...

CONAN THE BARBARIAN Blessed with a director, a composer, and a team of designers all operating at the very height of their powers—and...

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL Hardly the travesty of the holy Original Trilogy that crybabies constantly say it ...

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE With our director returning to his most popular franchise, we arrive at what is—in many importan...

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Look, I know.  All right?  I know. 1984 Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by Willar...

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK No introductions required. 1981 Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by George Lucas, Philip Kaufman, and L...